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...With Every Nerve." At London, Britain's Foreign Minister Ernest Bevin summed up the Western position. He said: "If a settlement is to be blocked every time we try, we cannot go on forever with chaos in Europe as it is now. ... I shall strive with every nerve and every effort to get a politically united Germany. . . . But if in the end peace is denied, then surely you cannot expect us at this stage to stand still with Western Europe in chaos and not do anything...
...wrathful over Russia's "calculated campaign of vilification and distortion of American motives in foreign affairs." The U.S. had one objective in Europe: restore Europe's peace and economic equilibrium. With that objective he was going to London to sit with Molotov, Bevin and Bidault on the fate of Germany and Austria. "My purpose [is] to concentrate solely on finding an acceptable basis of agreement to terminate the present tragic stalemate," he said...
...treaty would lead George Marshall on through weeks of stalemate on Germany. If so, the Russians were wrong. Clearly, Marshall did not intend to sit through another version of last winter's Moscow Conference, which accomplished nothing but the propagation of international ill will. Britain's Ernest Bevin was of like mind. He said last week: "No one can accuse me of being impatient . . . but there comes an end." If the conference does not reach agreement, "I am not going to be a party to keeping the world in chaos...
...expert on Germany, Ambassador Robert D. Murphy; Patrick Dean of the British Foreign Office; Andrei A. Smirnov of Russia's Foreign Ministry; and France's career diplomat Jacques Tarbe de St. Hardouin. Their job was not to negotiate, merely to set' up the issues which Marshall, Bevin, Bidault and Molotov would consider...
Within a fortnight of his appointment, Cripps had come to overshadow Attlee and Herbert Morrison and even Ernest Bevin. Chancellor of the Exchequer Hugh Dalton sulked in Cripps's long shadow. The Government now had direction, drive and vision. If British recovery failed under Cripps it would be because 1) world conditions forbade recovery, or 2) democratic socialism would not work, or 3) both...